The Los Angeles Clippers Foundation (LACF) is working with the L.A. County Department of Parks and Recreation to upgrade indoor and outdoor basketball courts across the county.
The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) recently partnered with the Los Angeles Clippers Foundation (LACF) to upgrade indoor and outdoor basketball courts at county parks. LACF is a non-profit organization, established in 1994 by the L.A. Clippers professional basketball team, to promote positive educational, environmental, and humanitarian values through community-outreach events and programming. For several years, LACF has supported DPR with uniform donations and sponsoring the Jr. Clipper Youth Basketball Program, with over 3,000 players participating in DPR basketball leagues, and over 100,000 youth program-wide across Southern California.
The latest partnership with DPR involves LACF donating $5.3 million to the Los Angeles County Parks Foundation (LACPF) to fund the Clippers Community Courts program, a countywide initiative to refurbish and improve all 117 basketball courts operated by DPR. These courts are located at 60 parks countywide, including many in park-poor neighborhoods that are lacking in quality recreational facilities and programs. This effort builds upon the work that LACF did in the city of Los Angeles, which included renovations of 350 public basketball courts, and took four years to complete.
L.A. Clippers star Russell Westbrook was on hand to celebrate the upgraded basketball courts at Jesse Owens Park in South Los Angeles where he learned the fundamentals of the game in his youth.
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